Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives' decision to close the Maurice Lamontagne Institute's library makes no sense.
Some 61,000 French-language scientific documents will be sent 800 km away from where they are truly needed. In addition to serving that institute, the library serves the UQAR's ocean sciences department, the Institut des sciences de la mer, the Institut maritime du Québec, the Marine Biotechnology Research Centre, the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Development of Ocean Mapping and the Technopole maritime du Québec, all located in Rimouski.
Can the minister tell us, with a straight face, how this makes any sense whatsoever?